{"id":293,"date":"2008-01-22T11:56:48","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T16:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/?p=293"},"modified":"2008-01-22T11:56:48","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T16:56:48","slug":"eeepc-vs-cloudbook-as-a-mapping-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/archives\/293\/eeepc-vs-cloudbook-as-a-mapping-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"eeepc vs. cloudbook as a mapping tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going on a trip in a couple weeks, and wanted something I could do mobile mapping on without bringing my big, clunky laptop with me. I started looking at the EeePC, and bumped into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everex.com\/\">CloudBook<\/a> &#8212; 30% longer battery life, 30GB hard drive instead of 4GB flash drive, same price point. It&#8217;s sold through Walmart, which is a major downside, but I might have been willing to accept the moral qualms that came with&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Until I found out that the trackpad is the little rectangle in the upper right corner of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/7458280@N07\/2175764379\/\">this picture on Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I want to do mapping with whatever I buy, and that little thing is simply not going to cut it. EeePC it is, if anything&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve asked $Coworker to bring his in today to see if it&#8217;s really the right size for me: I&#8217;ve seen his before, but only for a brief bit, and want to get another feel for the size before I go with it. I&#8217;m hopeful that if I do this purchase, I can make the Eee something I can take with me everywhere *instead* of the Macbook &#8212; so vacations, etc. aren&#8217;t besotted by me pulling out a gigantic Apple laptop, but instead a little thing that is designed more for the &#8216;on the go&#8217; case &#8212; and especially something that I won&#8217;t be trying to do work on, so that I&#8217;m not working during vaccations so much. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going on a trip in a couple weeks, and wanted something I could do mobile mapping on without bringing my big, clunky laptop with me. I started looking at the EeePC, and bumped into the CloudBook &#8212; 30% longer battery life, 30GB hard drive instead of 4GB flash drive, same price point. It&#8217;s sold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,44,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eeepc","category-locality-and-space","category-mapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}